The Strongest Adventurers’ Mental Caretaker ~ Somehow I Ended Up Involved with Every Beautiful Girl in the Hero’s Party ~ If You Have Time to Fight Over Me, Please Go Save the World - 5

Chapter 5: The Genius Mage and Unknown Pleasure

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Several days passed since I had administered the treat-ment to the hero and the knight in succession. The brutal aura from before had vanished from the two of them, and they had started frequenting the shop with somewhat voluptuous expressions.

I wanted to think that the matter was settled… but I knew better. There was still one more troublesome monster left in “Valkyrie.”

That afternoon. Inside the shop where the flow of customers had died down, I sensed a presence at the corner of the counter and raised my eyes.

“…Welcome. I know you are there.”

When I called out, a petite silhouette emerged soundlessly from behind a product shelf. It was the mage Luminara, wearing her hood pulled deep over her face. She stared at me with an expressionless gaze, as if observing a research subject. Her eyes were those of a scholar examining a target of study.

“—You noticed… me… Even though I had placed… a concealment spell on myself…”

“By the nature of my business, I am sensitive to the presence of people.”

“…As I thought, you are… no ordinary person…”

Luminara muttered with deep interest and approached the counter soundlessly. Then, she cut straight to the chase.

“I will ask you… bluntly… What did you do… to those two…?”

There were no fluctuations of emotion in her voice. However, a flame of intellectual curiosity flickered deep within her eyes.

“Freya, the aloof hero who never flocks with anyone… and Aeris, the rigid and inflexible knight… Those two changed after they started frequenting your shop… It is as if their poisonous edges were removed… almost like tamed cats…”

She leaned over the counter and peered into my face.

“A mental interference spell? Or an unknown drug? …Intriguing. Exactly what kind of means can be used… to tame those two S-ranks…?”

Apparently, she was misunderstanding my procedure as some kind of high-level sorcery. Shaking my head, I let out a wry smile.

“Calling it ‘taming’ makes it sound terrible. I simply listened to their worries and massaged their bodies a little.”

“Lies… There is no way that absolute massage alone could make that Aeris put on such a melted expression… …I can tell. You are… hiding something…”

Luminara would not back down. To her, a mass of desire for knowledge, the unknown phenomenon right before her eyes was a riddle that she could not leave unresolved.

(Good grief. Is this girl starving as well, albeit in a different sense?)

While letting out a sigh, I instantaneously formulated a plan to handle her. Words were unnecessary to bring down someone with a scholarly disposition. What was needed was empirical proof.

“…Even if I explained it verbally, you probably wouldn’t be convinced, would you?”

“Naturally… I only… believe in data…”

“In that case, practice over theory.”

I smiled meaningfully and pointed toward the reception room in the back with my thumb.

“Would you like to verify it for yourself? The true nature of the procedure I administered to those two.”

Luminara’s eyes widened. Wariness and a curiosity that outweighed it were at war inside her. However, her answer was already decided.

“…Very well. I shall… become the test subject…”

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Upon entering the special room, Luminara threw off her robe on her own initiative. Revealed beneath was a petite, fragile physique that stood in stark contrast to Freya and Aeris. The limbs peeking out from her revealing mage attire, which closely resembled a camisole, were thin enough to look as if they might snap, and her skin was pathologically stark white. With few contours, her build resembled a young girl doll rather than a mature woman.

(Hold on a minute. Is this really acceptable from an ethical standpoint?)

The conscience inside my mind rang alarm bells. The hero and the knight were at least physically mature, so that had been fine, but she looked far too young. Insisting that this was a treatment felt a bit awkward, even for someone like me.

“…Is something the matter? Hurry up and… begin…”

While I was hesitating, Luminara sat on the bed with an unsatisfied look and crossed her legs.

“…No. It’s just… it might be a bit too stimulating for you.”

“Exactly what I want… If the data is half-baked, I will blow away… this entire shop…”

That was a dangerous threat. I resigned myself to it. As a professional, I had no choice but to thoroughly accommodate her experiment.

“Understood. Well then… Let us first perform the activation of your magic energy circuits.”

Giving it a plausible name, I touched her fragile body.

“Nn… Body temperature and pulse, normal. …Continue.”

Luminara was calmly delivering a live commentary. I ran my fingers along her neckline, stimulating the erogenous zone where magic energy gathered with a soft touch.

“Mages overuse their brains and nerves. By heightening your senses like this, we forcibly open the magic energy circuits.”

“…! W-What… is this sensation…?”

As my fingertips traced behind her ear, Luminara’s calm mask faltered.

“A numbness… like an electric current… Is this… the activation…?”

“Yes. However, stimulation from the skin alone has poor efficiency. …We will approach directly from the mucous membrane, much deeper.”

I cupped her face with both hands, blocking her escape. Our gazes intertwined at point-blank range.

“M-Mucous membrane…? Does that mean——nn?!”

My lips blocked hers as she attempted to question me. Her eyes widened in surprise. Regardless, I forced my tongue inside, modernizing and overriding the interior of her tightly closed mouth.

“Nn… phew…Aah…!”

Luminara’s small hands tightly gripped my clothes. However, it was not resistance.

“Puh…! Haa, haa…! W-What is this…! I cannot collect… my thoughts…!”

“Stop thinking. Just gather the data exactly as you feel it.”

I pinned her down and playfully nipped the protrusions on her small chest over her clothes.

“Hya?! T-That place has… nothing to do with magic energy circuits… ahh!”

“It has everything to do with them. This place has the best response.”

My hand caressed up the inside of her thigh, reaching toward her private area. Luminara shuddered and trembled, yet she did not reject my hand. Her desire for knowledge was already being overwritten by instinctive pleasure.

“A-Ahh…! Incredible…! Something like this… was not written in any book…!”

“Shall we investigate even deeper?”

As I penetrated further, she let out pants with an ecstatic expression, her eyes nearly rolling back.

“More…! I need… more samples…! Tell me… everything about you…!”

The figure of the genius who was the admiration of all mages was no longer there. There was only a single female drowning in an unknown truth called pleasure.

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Luminara dazed atop the bed like an empty shell. Her eyes were hollow, but a satisfied smile hovered on her lips.

“…That was incredible.”

Muttering as if talking to herself, she stood up unsteadily, using her rod as a staff. Then, she lightly pinched my sleeve.

“…I have not… fully analyzed it yet…”

Luminara looked up at me with moist, melted eyes.

“The number of samples is… still insufficient… …From now on, you must accommodate my experiments… regularly…”

It sounded less like a command and more like a plea. With a wry smile, I gave her head a gentle pat.

“Being enthusiastic about research is a good thing. Come again.”

With this, she was the third. The hero, the knight, and the mage. In this manner, every member of the strongest party, “Valkyrie,” had become a regular customer of my shop.

…However, I did not know yet… That they had absolutely no intention of remaining mere regular customers…

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